MLB Statistics

Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
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YEAR

Team

Lg

G

GS

IP

W

L

SV

H

BB

SO

HR

oppTAv

PPF

H/9

BB/9

HR/9

K/9

GB%

BABIP

TAv

WHIP

FIP

ERA

cFIP

DRA

DRA-

WARP

1997

BOS

0

8

0

16.0

0

2

0

15

3

13

0

.267

99

8.4

1.7

0.0

7.3

67%

.326

.210

1.12

2.46

3.38

0

0.00

97.5

0.0

1997

SEA

0

12

9

53.0

2

4

0

59

20

39

11

.259

101

10.0

3.4

1.9

6.6

47%

.296

.282

1.49

5.62

6.96

0

0.00

100.4

0.0

1998

BOS

MLB

63

10

123.0

3

9

4

126

42

77

5

.264

101

9.2

3.1

0.4

5.6

65%

.303

.239

1.37

3.62

4.02

92

3.67

88.2

2.6

1999

BOS

MLB

74

0

109.3

6

3

15

84

25

80

7

.265

97

6.9

2.1

0.6

6.6

64%

.241

.203

1.00

3.37

2.63

76

3.20

70.5

2.8

2000

BOS

MLB

74

0

91.3

4

4

42

90

22

79

6

.266

92

8.9

2.2

0.6

7.8

70%

.311

.224

1.23

3.14

2.56

68

2.82

62.3

2.8

2001

BOS

MLB

67

3

91.7

5

10

24

103

29

82

7

.259

96

10.1

2.8

0.7

8.1

73%

.342

.257

1.44

3.41

3.53

76

2.45

65.6

3.0

2002

BOS

MLB

32

32

219.7

21

8

0

166

48

127

12

.264

98

6.8

2.0

0.5

5.2

75%

.235

.199

0.97

3.43

2.58

86

3.53

84.2

5.1

2003

BOS

MLB

33

33

203.3

17

7

0

216

72

110

17

.267

105

9.6

3.2

0.8

4.9

68%

.294

.251

1.42

4.32

4.47

94

4.28

95.5

3.3

2004

BOS

MLB

33

33

182.7

14

12

0

224

71

105

15

.262

110

11.0

3.5

0.7

5.2

63%

.327

.268

1.61

4.37

5.42

94

4.47

95.7

2.6

2005

LAN

MLB

35

35

222.0

12

15

0

223

55

146

28

.255

96

9.0

2.2

1.1

5.9

64%

.279

.256

1.25

4.13

3.61

84

2.94

73.1

6.4

2006

LAN

MLB

35

34

218.0

16

8

0

221

55

123

14

.260

97

9.1

2.3

0.6

5.1

68%

.289

.234

1.27

3.64

3.63

86

3.55

80.7

5.4

2007

LAN

MLB

33

32

199.3

12

14

0

194

59

147

20

.257

100

8.8

2.7

0.9

6.6

66%

.288

.241

1.27

3.91

3.88

85

3.89

89.3

4.0

2008

LAN

MLB

34

34

211.0

14

11

0

194

45

147

14

.260

93

8.3

1.9

0.6

6.3

61%

.280

.226

1.13

3.23

3.24

85

2.53

75.2

7.1

2009

ATL

MLB

34

34

194.7

15

10

0

232

63

111

16

.261

96

10.7

2.9

0.7

5.1

57%

.327

.274

1.52

4.02

4.67

105

3.94

0.0

3.6

2010

ATL

MLB

33

33

193.7

16

12

0

204

61

136

18

.261

94

9.5

2.8

0.8

6.3

59%

.307

.264

1.37

3.92

4.00

98

3.04

82.5

5.0

2011

ATL

MLB

34

34

187.0

9

17

0

212

70

137

14

.258

96

10.2

3.4

0.7

6.6

60%

.327

.277

1.51

3.67

5.05

100

3.53

92.4

3.4

2012

CLE

0

21

21

119.0

8

10

0

156

45

41

8

.260

101

11.8

3.4

0.6

3.1

60%

.333

.292

1.69

4.44

5.52

0

0.00

111.6

0.0

2012

NYA

0

17

0

23.7

1

1

1

24

6

14

2

.255

106

9.1

2.3

0.8

5.3

55%

.289

.227

1.27

3.72

3.04

0

0.00

113.8

0.0

2013

TEX

MLB

9

0

13.0

1

0

0

16

3

8

3

.256

103

11.1

2.1

2.1

5.5

59%

.317

.305

1.46

6.00

9.00

109

3.72

99.7

0.1

1997

TOT

MLB

20

9

69.0

2

6

0

74

23

52

11

.261

100

9.7

3.0

1.4

6.8

51%

.303

.267

1.41

4.88

6.13

94

4.53

99.7

0.8

2012

TOT

MLB

38

21

142.7

9

11

1

180

51

55

10

.259

101

11.4

3.2

0.6

3.5

60%

.326

.282

1.62

4.32

5.11

113

5.26

112.0

-0.2

Career

MLB

681

377

2671.3

176

157

86

2759

794

1722

217

.261

98

9.3

2.7

0.7

5.8

64%

.297

.249

1.33

3.85

4.03

91

3.60

85.7

57.8

Statistics for All Levels

'opp' stats - Quality of opponents faced - have been moved and are available only as OPP_QUAL in the Statistics reports now.Minor league stats are currently shown —Click to hide.

4 years/$60M (2009-12). Signed by Atlanta as a free agent 1/15/09. 09-12: $15M/year. Contract does not include no-trade protection. Acquired by Cleveland in trade from Atlanta 10/31/11, with Indians paying $5M of Lowe's 2012 salary. DFA by Cleveland 8/2/12. Released 8/10/12. Signed by NY Yankees as a free agent 8/13/12.

BP Chats

best shot to be a closer by this time next year. Doolittle, Villareal, Stroman?(Bernie Fine from Syracuse NY)

I know this isn't a good answer but I have no idea. They all could be closers or none could. Then they could all reverse themselves. Look at the guys who were supposed to be closers this year. even the great Mariano Rivera got hurt and the Yankees have used a number of different closers this season. Heck, even Derek Lowe got a save for the Yankees last night. Predicting closers is pretty tough. (Matthew Kory)

Derek Lowe has given up a boatload of infield ground ball singles today. Are the wheels falling off?(Mr. Bungle from Your Dreams)

Because of the infield singles? Nah. I don’t think he’s likely to keep this up, however. Last winter, I made the joke that Lowe might suffer the indignation of having a higher ERA than SO/9. Little did I know that he’d actually do it, and (probably) make the All-Star team in the process. (R.J. Anderson)

First trade of the offseason: Derek Lowe to the Indians for a minor league pitcher (Braves cover $10 million of Lowe's contract).(Cult of Basebaal from Los Angeles Anaheim of Pasadena)

We're writing that up for Transaction Analysis right now. Seems to me that the Braves get a chance to move one of a few promising arms into the rotation, that $10 million is still less than $15 million, and maybe the fellah they picked up turns into a back-o'-bullpen arm. Lowe is about to be 39 and has been fairly mediocre the last few years. FIP suggests the Braves defense didn't do him any favors, but I'm not sure the Indians have a lot more to offer. I like the move for the Braves. (Steven Goldman)

In 2004, Derek Lowe went into Yankee Stadium, in Game 7, and allowed one hit and no runs in six innings -- on two day's rest. Why is this rarely lauded as one of the greatest clutch-pitching performances in baseball history?(Ice Water from Cox's Rotation)

I think because the indelible moment of that game is Johnny Damon's grand slam, that seminal moment when it became the clear that the impossible comeback was going to become reality. (John Perrotto)

Somewhat off of the Lester question, is Derek Lowe finished?(Mark Smith from Lexington, KY)

I haven't seen him pitch this year, not even on TV, so I don't know how he looks beyond the numbers. I do know that it's still April and that he's gone through some bumpy stretches over the course of his career, only to come back around, so that may be the case here. Kind of a lame answer, but that's all I can offer. (David Laurila)

As a Met fan, I would have gladly overpaid Derek Lowe by $2m a year to avoid overpaying Perez by $10M a year. You could just watch Boras box the Mets in on Perez during the offseason, and it was painful. He knew the Mets would give Perez a deal because they "had" to at that point. (dantroy from davis)

The rest of the Mets front office should have staged an elaborate ruse to trick Minaya into thinking he signed Perez when he had not, just to have him quit the negotiations. Just have one of your other employees walk into the office with a fake mustasche (Boras doesn't have one, but this will distract Minaya long enough for the deed to be done) and claim to be Scott Boras with an offer Minaya can't refuse.

That or call Minaya's house in the middle of the night claiming to be Boras, and then say that Oliver Perez now hates you and won't sign for anything less than 30% of team ownership, 50% of net beer sales and a pony. The downside is that there's a small chance Minaya would still go for it. (Marc Normandin)

I've heard rumblings that Kevin Millwood has developed a new pitch or that he has just greatly improved one. Are the first two starts of the season just Millwood being fresh and/or lucky, or is this a sign of things to come? Is this the potential that he was supposed to reach with the Braves?
Also, what about Kyle Lohse? Is this an example of batters not catching up to pitchers yet too?(Clay from Sarasota, FL)

Haven't heard anything about a new pitch. For his sake I hope it's a sinker to rival Derek Lowe's, because he needs all the help he can get pitching in that ballpark. (Jay Jaffe)

Joe, I know you were right with me when I started screaming at the TV circa Bobby Cox's decision to prematurely remove Derek Lowe from the game in the 8th inning with a low pitch count and a string of righties coming up. That decision almost cost him the game. Thankfully for this Braves fan, Mssrs Howard and Ibanez bailed him out with their free-swinging ways.(Connor from Chicago, IL)

Yeah, I was a little surprised by that. It's not like Lowe appeared to be tiring or had to work hard in the eighth. This is one of those situations where any criticism gets met with, "Well, we were there and you weren't," but I don't really understand the decision, and I don't understand starting the inning with Gonzalez against three righties with a four-run lead. It's one thing to manage workloads; it's another to appear to be actively avoiding letting starters finish games.

Hey Will- Once again, Congrats. Why would the Mets go after Ollie Perez over Derek Lowe if the annual money is the same? OP has been, at best, inconsistent and Lowe is the model of consistent. It has been reported that it would take $12-$15mil annually to get either. Still, I understand Omar "stole" OP, but if you hit the inside straight on a 2-3 and crack someone's aces it doesn't mean you should play a 2-3 in every instance. Your thoughts? (JKiersky from Memphis)

Hey Jon - owe you an email.

Perez still has upside and has a stuff advantage over Lowe, but that's only a possibility. Lowe is consistent and I didn't see any sign of decline with him. Last year's PECOTA says you could give him a five year contract and reasonably see the same performance until Lowe is 40. Unless you know something about Perez and felt he was going to take it up a notch, I'd take Lowe. Unless my infield defense sucked. (Will Carroll)

With CC reportedly getting 22.8 M / 7 Does it make Derek Lowe a 15 M / 4?
Burnett 16 M / 5?
Sheets 16 M / 2?
If so is there a bargain among the rest of the free agent starter class?
Hows about one of these teams converting a closer ala Wood into a starter?
(jzzskins from Brooklyn, NY)

I think Lowe is something of a bargain, relative to Sabathia, if that's his number. After that, it will be hard to find bargains. Not sure about relievers making the move...Heilman's often talked about, I guess. (Joe Sheehan)

Why is Derek Lowe seen as a good FA pickup? Yeah, he had some good years - in Chavez Ravine...in the National League...in a lousy division...with some reasonable defense behind him. This guy got torched in his last AL season. Your thoughts?(Phil from NJ)

That was five years ago, and it seems clear that he's a better version of what he was as a Red Sock. Throw in the durability, and he's safer than most of the guys being signed. He doesn't have the same upside, of course, but he's also 3/100 cheaper than Sabathia. (Joe Sheehan)

Do you see the Jays having any chance at signing Derek Lowe? They seem like a really good fit with their strong infield defense. Personally, I think they'd be much better signing him then they would be if they got AJ Burnett back given their respective histories. Am I making sense are is my dislike of AJ getting in the way?(blaseta from Calgary)

Lowe has been among the most durable pitchers in the majors; he's second to Maddux in games started over the last four years while Burnett is... not. He's a horse and there aren't too many teams who COULDN'T use a pitcher like that. Which means the Jays would have to outbid the Dodgers, Yankees, Mets and anyone else who throws their hat in the ring.

As for Burnett, he's got a MUCH higher upside, but with the high reward comes a very inflated risk, not to mention his reputation as a jackass, which as you acknowledge can distort the perception of his value. If he opts out, I think the Jays are better off looking in another direction rather than paying him, though I'm sure somebody will. (Jay Jaffe)

Hi Steven. Which free agents should the Yankees target this off-season, if any? (Joe from Washington, DC)

Teixeira has to be job #1. He's the closest thing to a no-brainer there is out there in terms of maintaining/improving the offense and shoring up a problematic defense. After that, I'd love to see a right fielder who can hit with Bobby Abreu but isn't afraid that the wall is going to bite him, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards just now... I don't share their enthusiasm for signing every free agent pitcher on the market. Sabathia's size and workload are kind of scary, Burnett is somewhat overrated and tends to break down. Sheets is great but is an injury concern. They don't have the defense to support Derek Lowe. I guess of those four CC is the best bet. (Steven Goldman)

Hi Jay. In picking the Dodgers in six, which of these five factors do you believe weighs most heavily in LA's favor: Pitching, Offense, Fielding, Matchups or Momentum?(BrownDog from Cape Cod, MA)

Pitching. The more I look at the matchups, the more I like the fact that the Dodgers have a groundball-heavy staff that doesn't give up a lot of homers, the fact that in Kuo they've got a potentially dominant late-inning lefty in the bullpen along with another pretty good one in Beimel, and the way their rotation aligns with regards to the possiblity that Derek Lowe pitches 1-4-7. (Jay Jaffe)

Does this mean Ned Colletti knows what he's doing? If I'm a Dodgers fan, do I care? Even if we win the World Series by mistake... we still win the World Series!!!(Wendy from Madrid)

Blind chickens, kernals of corn, etc. If Colletti knows what he's doing, how come he'll be left with about $25 million/year in bad outfielders to contend with if he wants to keep the current Manny-Kemp-Ethier lineup out there every day?

That the Dodgers are where they are has more to do with their player development resources (the kids in their lineup and the ones traded to acquire Ramirez, Blake, et al) than anything else. Throw in some smart decisions during the Paul DePodesta regime (the Derek Lowe contract, the decision to convert Broxton to a closer) and it's clear that this isn't just Colletti's team to take credit for.

The bottom line, however, is that the Dodgers haven't been in this position in 20 years. However it came about and whatever happens from here on out, enjoy it for all that it's worth. (Jay Jaffe)

Derek Lowe is having an incredible season and he's never even sniffed the DL. What kind of contract does he garner in the off-season?(Mike from LA)

There's something of a perception that he should stay in the NL. I could see him as the safest pick in the market, someone who might see his ERA climb into the mid-4.00s over the life of a deal, but who will keep cranking out 200 innings a year through it. The better your middle infield, the more valuable Lowe is to your team. (Joe Sheehan)

I saw a rumor that had Robinson Cano heading to LA for Derek Lowe and Matt Kemp. This reeks of a set up to acquire Washburn and Vidro from Seattle. Tell me that the Yanks don't plan on making Vidro their 2B?(Scott from NJ)

I'd consider that a genuine bit of Apple-flavored nonsense (Big or equine, not Mac), not simply because the Dodgers can't really afford to part with any starting pitching, but because they also have some guy named Kent. (Christina Kahrl)

Wouldn't a contender be wise to get 3 months of Derek Lowe and a compensatory draft pick for one top prospect and one mid-to-top prospect? Will Lowe cost more than that?(The King from Grinnell, IA)

Sure, it might make sense, but let's face it, that would mean the bitter-end win-now crowd would have to submit to the will of the "let's be great" development crowd in the Dodgers' front office, and that means letting initiative move up instead of down on management's decision tree. I don't see it happening. (Christina Kahrl)

What would it take for the Rays to acquire Derek Lowe? I personally would love a groundball pitcher like Lowe replacing Jackson in the rotation. We seem to be on very decent terms with Colletti.(jlarsen from DRays Bay)

Well, I don't think the Dodgers are ready to be sellers at this point as they aren't that far off the lead in the West. (John Perrotto)

Hey KG, what particular stats do you focus on when considering a pitching prospect? Does some stat that takes into account ability to induce ground balls come into play? And, finally, what pitchers have a chance to develop into the next Derek Lowe / Jake Westbrook? Thanks.(Mario66 from Toronto)

IP, H, K are the first three I like out, but everything is taken into account. Next Derek Lowe just might be Justin Masterson. (Kevin Goldstein)

PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2016, Derek Lowe threw 17,842 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2007 and 2013, including pitches thrown in the MLB Regular Season, the MLB Postseason and Spring Training. In 2013, he relied primarily on his Sinker (89mph), also mixing in a Slider (81mph) and Cutter (87mph). He also rarely threw a Change (84mph) and Fourseam Fastball (89mph).